Editing ESL/ESL class summaries and lesson plans (section)

== Sun Jan 5 ==
[[File:ESL Lesson-06 week of Jan 5.pdf|thumb|248x248px|Lesson Plan 6, Jan 4, 2025]]
* [[File:Christmas-New Years vocabulary.pdf|thumb|248x248px|Handout: Christmas & New Years vocabulary]]Started with "do" "did" questions and responses
** we modeled conversations, such as 
*** "Did you have a nice Christmas?"
*** "Do you go to the movies"
*** "Take this handout"
** which led to the question: "What did I forget to do"
*** (excellent opportunity for identifying infinitives as objects!)
** which led to prayer because Michael forget to start with prayer
** note that these forms of "do" are either
*** imperatives (questions)
*** "do-support" forms of "do" as an auxiliary verb in a declarative sentence
*** btw, students are familiar from Spanish with the terms "imperative" and "declarative", which we don't use much in 
* we did the Hail Mary, Glory Be, and Oh My Jesus prayers from the Rosary
** students are getting more comfortable with reciting these in English
** repetition is super helpful
* the larger skill set is to recognize the question and answer it using the information in the question
** ex.  
*** Question: ''Why is the sky blue?''
**** = interrogatory
*** Sta1ement: ''T1he sky is blue''
**** = declaratory
** so when asked
*** ''Do you know what is Advent?''
** drop the question words "Do you" and turn it into a declaratory statement
*** ''I do know what Advent is''
** [[File:Christmas-New Years conversation.pdf|thumb|251x251px|Christmas and New Year's conversation practice]]this led to an interesting and difficult exercise as to:
*** Turn the following question into a statement:
**** ''Why do we use candles for Christmas?''
*** students wanted to answer the question, so we had to walk them back to turning an interrogatory into a declarative sentence, which would be:
**** ''We use candles for Christmas.''
** from there they were better able to see how an answer to a question uses information in the question itself, such as
*** ''Did you know that Christmas Eve is the last day of Advent?''
*** ''I did not know that Christmas Eve is the last day of Advent.''

* a complication we encountered in interrogatories came up as regards to definite and indefinite articles and determiners
** ex.
*** ''Did you get any presents?''
**** "any" is indefinite (general)
*** the answer would be 
**** ''I did get some presents''
***** where "any" is indefinite "some" is definite
** this is something to continue to work on
* from there we reviewed the Christmas Vocabulary worksheet and discussed various terms and ideas from it
** a productive exercise was to read the day's Gospel from [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/2?1 Matthew 2:1] about the Magi
*** we compared the English to the Spanish (using [https://www.biblegateway.com/ BibleGateway.com])
*** we discussed the meaning of the passage in both English and Spanish, both for language and Scripture)
** Michael learned that "pastor" in Spanish means "shepherd" !